After The Office, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, and Foxcatcher, is Steve Carell only now showing us what he’s really capable of? The nicest guy in showbiz talks about his three new Oscar-buzzworthy movies—plus why The Office wouldn’t fly in the #timesup era.

As 2018 draws to a close, TYRANNY IS RESURGENT around the globe, the postwar order is on the verge of a crack-up, and a Hyperpolarized America is careening toward a constitutional crisis. FRANCIS FUKUYAMA, the onetime neocon thinker who famously declared “The End of History,” now asks, Is this just a temporary glitch, or the DAWN OF A FRIGHTENING NEW ERA?By WESLEY YANG14 min

Rep. DEVIN NUNES is head of the House Intelligence Committee and one of President TRUMP’S biggest defenders. For years, he’s spun himself as a straight talker whose no-BS values are rooted in his family’s California dairy farm. So why did his parents and brother cover their tracks after quietly moving the farm to Iowa? Are they hiding something politically explosive? On the ground in Iowa, RYAN LIZZ A searches for the truth—and discovers a lot of PARANOIA AND HYPOCRISY.

The high hallmarks of '80s and '90s style are suddenly looking stronger than ever. Think chalk-stripe suiting, camel coats, contrast collars—an overall bolder-is-better approach to dressing. Who better to show it all off than the guys who made their names modeling it the first time around?

How do you sell success? You embody it. Half a century ago, Ralph Lauren built an empire on the American dream: the belief that with hard work, and perseverance, and some luck, anyone could shoot to the top. We proved him right with our wallets. This year, as he celebrates his company’s fiftieth anniversary, Esquire talks with the people who watched Ralph on the rise.By Paul L. Underwood10 min